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‘Dexter: Original Sin’ Is Guilty of Beating a Dead Horse: TV Review
The Showtime prequel series 'Dexter: Original Sin' beats a dead horse in tracing the serial killer's early career.
Not only does the 10-episode season — advance screeners of which were not provided for critics — wind the clock back to 1991, when a 20-year-old Dexter (Patrick Gibson) graduates from the University of Miami and makes his way into the local police department as a paid intern. While Maria LaGuerta (Christina Milian) at least gets a backstory as a new detective who’s been publicly critical of the homicide department’s disproportionate focus on white, well-off victims, she’s not that far removed from the woman she’ll be in 15 years. The “fresh” faces in the “Original Sin” ensemble are themselves avatars of nostalgia: Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Dexter’s new boss, while Patrick Dempsey appears as the mustachioed, helmet-haired police chief.
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